What’s your favorite Marshall?

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rottingcorpse said:
Stock- my Kerry King head that Kerry borrowed to play the Dime tribute show at Ozzfest.
Modded- my Gutierrez "Langner" 50 watt 800. Most useable gain of any modded marshall I have ever played.

These two are so important/prized that I had to put them in my will(not kidding).
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Hopefully they go to your best friend, Smashedguitarist
 
Racerxrated said:
I like it BUT there is NO taper at all; and it sounds glorious...but it will get a bit louder than that, like another .2 up from 1 then it starts to saturate in a bad way. With one end of the 5K clipped, I can get a nice taper up to 6 or so which equals the 5K on 1...I'd never liked clipping bright caps on any Marshall after I tried it once and it totally neutered the 2203 I had..never again. But this amp may be the exception
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I hear you! I like the big bright caps. For me, it’s the bite and aggression of the 5k Lemco that gets me. It’s just a certain something in the tone I enjoy. It’s part of the SL Marshall crunch I hear in my head.

I get it, though. For some guys, it’s too much. If you want clean sounds, you’ll never have it. You pretty much have no clean sound with them and the amp becomes a one trick pony. It’s just happens to be the one trick I like a SL for, haha. It’ll also be a ridiculously bright icepick until you get the volume up, but then the brightness starts to level out and you’re left with an aggressive top end crunch by the time you get to 5-6. Some of my favorite sounds are plugged into those old SL with 5k Lemco bright caps, not jumpered, with the volume up around 6.5 - 7. If you’re running it at 10 all the time, I guess it doesn’t matter which you have in there either.
 
87 silver jubilee combo. Best sounding amp I have heard period. I say heard, because the guy that owned it was trying it through my cab that he was there to buy, and he was not cool enough to offer me a go. His playing wasn't good, but the amp really showed it's voice on sustained chords. I am hoping that my Warshall (name i have come up for the Wizard 800) will leave it in the dust, but we will see. I get it this weekend.
 
Smashedguitarist said:
87 silver jubilee combo. Best sounding amp I have heard period. I say heard, because the guy that owned it was trying it through my cab that he was there to buy, and he was not cool enough to offer me a go. His playing wasn't good, but the amp really showed it's voice on sustained chords. I am hoping that my Warshall (name i have come up for the Wizard 800) will leave it in the dust, but we will see. I get it this weekend.
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I think there’s a good chance it will. I had an ‘87 silver jubilee combo last year and traded it partly because I thought my Wizard MTL sounded way way better to me. I also preferred my ‘79 JMP2203 (still have it), but that was more of a different flavor than the jubilee
 
You rarely ever hear old Marshall without Modded or Boost in the same conversation. If they were so great, you wouldn't need a mod or boost. Truth is that it's old shit and amp technology is way past the Fender ripoff years..

BTW, modern amp designers love to invest years or hard work to create new levels of natural sounding tube distortion just to have some dope throw some jackass buzzbox in front of it.. Ohh, it sounds so natural with all that solid state clipping dogshit.. LOL

Just doin what I do best which is rackin up likes on a message board.. :devilish:
 
I actually really liked the Marshall JMP-1 preamp and their big 100/100 EL34 power amp.
 
Devin said:
The Satch JVM is one of the only amps I GAS for. Too 'spensive for me though :(
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I personally was let down with the Satch. Other than the loop, I preferred everything on the stock 410. I wanted to like it but...just a much tamer version of the 410 with some usable options like the gate and the loop. That's just me though, I'm sure other guys love that amp. That said my bread n butter on the JVM is the OD1 Orange for Rhythm and Lead and the clean channel, that's all I use.
 
midnightlaundry said:
You rarely ever hear old Marshall without Modded or Boost in the same conversation. If they were so great, you wouldn't need a mod or boost. Truth is that it's old shit and amp technology is way past the Fender ripoff years..

BTW, modern amp designers love to invest years or hard work to create new levels of natural sounding tube distortion just to have some dope throw some jackass buzzbox in front of it.. Ohh, it sounds so natural with all that solid state clipping dogshit.. LOL

Just doin what I do best which is rackin up likes on a message board.. :devilish:
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Haha I hear ya. The problem I have is, for the most part modern amps that don’t need a boost sound flat or sterile to me. Exception being a C+ or a Mk IV. An old Bassman, which are still under 1K, and a couple pedals blows the doors off anything made recently imo. EVH? Sorry but it feels and sounds very ‘meh’ to me, I know lots like them....vintage amps just have ‘something’ that newer amps can’t get. Maybe in 20 yrs they will?
 
NewWorldMan said:
I hear you! I like the big bright caps. For me, it’s the bite and aggression of the 5k Lemco that gets me. It’s just a certain something in the tone I enjoy. It’s part of the SL Marshall crunch I hear in my head.

I get it, though. For some guys, it’s too much. If you want clean sounds, you’ll never have it. You pretty much have no clean sound with them and the amp becomes a one trick pony. It’s just happens to be the one trick I like a SL for, haha. It’ll also be a ridiculously bright icepick until you get the volume up, but then the brightness starts to level out and you’re left with an aggressive top end crunch by the time you get to 5-6. Some of my favorite sounds are plugged into those old SL with 5k Lemco bright caps, not jumpered, with the volume up around 6.5 - 7. If you’re running it at 10 all the time, I guess it doesn’t matter which you have in there either.
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For me it’s not the gain; it’s the volume. It’s like a Wizard on 5 with that bright cap in...I have an attenuator but with the leg clipped it still sounds better than the attenuator. I have some smaller ceramic caps that I’m gonna clip in this weekend and give them a shot. So far having the one side lifted, I still get the same tone/gain when I have vol 1 at 6.5.
 
Here's a story - now granted I'm probably older that most guys on here. Anyway, when I started playing at age 12 my first Marshall was a JMP Mk2 2x12 combo which was fairly new. In fact I can't even remember if it was new or used. Regardless this was the era of the newer JMP's 2203/2204 era. I guess right around '78/79 time frame.

Anyway, there was the local music store that had tons of stuff, great store. In the back they had all the used stuff and stacked up against a wall 4/5 heads high and 4/5 heads wide were used Marshalls. We're talking Plexi's, Super Leads, Marshall Majors even some Parks and beater checkerboard 4x12's....all going dirt cheap. They couldn't sell them, nobody wanted them. Everyone wanted the master volume amps. To this day I cannot get over going in that store and seeing all those old Marshalls...and the money they're worth now. Crazy.
 
Racerxrated said:
Haha I hear ya. The problem I have is, for the most part modern amps that don’t need a boost sound flat or sterile to me. Exception being a C+ or a Mk IV. An old Bassman, which are still under 1K, and a couple pedals blows the doors off anything made recently imo. EVH? Sorry but it feels and sounds very ‘meh’ to me, I know lots like them....vintage amps just have ‘something’ that newer amps can’t get. Maybe in 20 yrs they will?
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Haven’t you learned yet that tone is in drop Z ....sheesh
 
jabps said:
Here's a story - now granted I'm probably older that most guys on here. Anyway, when I started playing at age 12 my first Marshall was a JMP Mk2 2x12 combo which was fairly new. In fact I can't even remember if it was new or used. Regardless this was the era of the newer JMP's 2203/2204 era. I guess right around '78/79 time frame.

Anyway, there was the local music store that had tons of stuff, great store. In the back they had all the used stuff and stacked up against a wall 4/5 heads high and 4/5 heads wide were used Marshalls. We're talking Plexi's, Super Leads, Marshall Majors even some Parks and beater checkerboard 4x12's....all going dirt cheap. They couldn't sell them, nobody wanted them. Everyone wanted the master volume amps. To this day I cannot get over going in that store and seeing all those old Marshalls...and the money they're worth now. Crazy.
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Reminds me of the early 90s; everyone had to have rack stuff including me. Mini rack with ADA MP1, Digitech GSP 21, Mosvalve power amp. Sounded ok..but when I went to pick it up, one of the owners showed me a 67 SL. Told me if I had second thoughts to come back and I can buy his 67 with the matching cab. 800. God how I wish I had second thoughts!
 
My favorite Marshalls are my Egnater modded 2203s and 2204s, they sound and more importantly feel like a stock amp with an SD-1 in front of it. Still has the Marshall kerrrrrang !
 
Racerxrated said:
Reminds me of the early 90s; everyone had to have rack stuff including me. Mini rack with ADA MP1, Digitech GSP 21, Mosvalve power amp. Sounded ok..but when I went to pick it up, one of the owners showed me a 67 SL. Told me if I had second thoughts to come back and I can buy his 67 with the matching cab. 800. God how I wish I had second thoughts!
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That's exactly what happened to my 50W JMP head, traded it in on an ADA MP-1. At least I got to get Todd to modify it a few years later lol.

One of the many gear regrets through the years though for sure trading that amp. And then letting go of the modded ADA lol. Double whammy lol.
 
I don't even own any Marshalls currently, but I've got an awesome sounding Peavey Butcher which is virtually a clone of an 800, and sounds fantastic.

Put an SD-1 in front of it, and it sounds godly. Damn, I wanna go home and plug it in right now!!!
 
Racerxrated said:
My 72 has a 5K Lemco. Holy shit it’s off to $&&@ loud. Clipped one leg and it’s so much better. Now that pulverizing tone is way up at 6.5 on vol 1. Gonna try a 100 and 500 this weekend
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I've got a spare NOS Lemco 300pF/6kV dogbone if you want to try it. They aren't small but I haven't had any stability issues. My '68 Superbass build has a 47pF NOS Lemco dogbone on the Bright volume pot and then the 300pF on the pull-switch. They weren't my favorite treble peaker (I like silver mica there) but for a bright cap I like them a lot.
 
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